c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design." — Adam Ferguson
"My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her." — Loni Anderson
"For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again." — Paula Cole
"It's funny how most activists are pacifists." — Craig Bruce
"I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love." — Marilyn Monroe
"Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Men, their rights, and nothing more women, their rights, and nothing less." — Susan B. Anthony
"It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports." — Roger Goodell
"Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life." — Donna Tartt
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." — Michel Aoun
"Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art." — John Updike
"Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy." — Fanny Burney
"I never wanted to be a celebrity I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way." — Sarah Jessica Parker
"Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude." — Jesse Jackson
"Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem." — Ralph Merkle
"Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage there's no betrayal of trust." — Aldrich Ames
"I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back." — Imelda Marcos
"Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition." — Marc Andreessen
"The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves." — David Letterman
"I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting." — Elizabeth Moon
"Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?" — Jim Bouton
"We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise." — LeVar Burton
"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important." — Steve Jobs
"On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It's just not the way we really behave." — Tim Heidecker
"There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage." — Iain Duncan Smith
"In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience." — Dean Koontz
"Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on." — Peter Ueberroth
"At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly." — Rod Stewart
"If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government." — George Osborne
"I happen to be interested in watching a face age. I like faces of women aging so it makes me personally quite sad. That's a beautiful gift from God. If people don't want to see that anymore then I won't be in anymore movies." — Debra Winger
"I feel so good after a workout. Any time you can be alone with yourself is really important." — Shay Mitchell
"The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out." — Walter Benjamin
"My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair." — Aeschylus
"Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again." — Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure." — Lara St. John
"We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom." — Stephen Vincent Benet
"In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation." — Simone de Beauvoir
"Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies." — Elie Wiesel
"Besides the fact that I make movies, there's nothing interesting about my life at all, unfortunately." — Jonah Hill
"I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison." — Jeffrey Archer
"The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion." — Samuel Butler
"There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents." — Thomas Jefferson
"Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient." — Ambrose Bierce
"I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live." — Godfrey Reggio
"I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head." — Malcolm Mclaren
"Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments." — Bethenny Frankel
"Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God." — Honore de Balzac
"Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?" — Robert Orben
"I'm always looking for cool stuff to do because that's what we're supposed to do, ya know?" — Joshua Homme
"Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them." — Johannes Brahms
"I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that." — Rainn Wilson
"Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information." — Peter Drucker
"In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event." — Theodore Bikel
"For once I want to have a relationship outside the public eye." — Lance Bass
"In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind." — Tony Blair
"I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever." — Eddie Izzard
"When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me." — Melanie Laurent
"I want to be a morning-talk-show host. I love Kelly Ripa's job. She gets to live in New York and has this amazing job hosting a talk show." — Ellie Kemper
"So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed." — Debi Thomas
"There's something that's sexy about a guy who has the strength to kill somebody, but is also vulnerable enough to be in love. It's just those two sides - like, I don't know why, but women for some reason aren't attracted to normal guys, like, guys who are in between." — Evan Peters
"Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair." — William Shakespeare
"You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff." — George H. W. Bush
"God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there." — Billy Graham
"I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding." — Gustav Mahler
"For every minute, the future is becoming the past." — Thor Heyerdahl
"Croatia is an amazing place." — Jean Reno
"One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer." — Will McDonough
"World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism." — Stephen Ambrose
"Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero." — F. Scott Fitzgerald
"We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that." — Marco Rubio
"We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us." — Barbara Boxer
"Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line." — Andy Grove
"First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds." — William Bartram
"I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control." — Barbara Kingsolver
"We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based." — Stephen King
"I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food." — Jonathan Safran Foer
"The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer." — Muhammad Iqbal
"I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out." — Serena Williams
"We have got too many kids around the house to have a romantic meal at home. But Danielle is a fantastic cook. She does a brilliant lasagne, great roasts and a great chilli dish. She knows the way to my heart." — Gary Lineker
"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept." — Ansel Adams
"Uncertainty is the refuge of hope." — Henri Frederic Amiel
"Change yourself and your work will seem different." — Norman Vincent Peale
"I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done." — Leonardo DiCaprio
"Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers." — Nathaniel Hawthorne
"You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it." — Bess Truman
"After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and not only have some children, but also have some actors that had no attitude." — Phillip Noyce
"Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it." — Mehmet Oz
"The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination." — Sarah Fielding
"Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen." — Queen Elizabeth II
"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience." — Laurence J. Peter
"We take our kids for physical vaccinations, dental exams, eye checkups. When do we think to take our - our son or daughter for a mental health checkup?" — Gordon Smith
"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children." — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Fear is proof of a degenerate mind." — Virgil
"There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that." — Dave Navarro
"Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare." — Rene Descartes
"I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun." — James Stewart
"There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity." — Kenny Rogers
"There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home." — Rosalynn Carter
"We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same." — Arthur Erickson
"I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing." — Tim Robbins
"I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term." — Joni Mitchell
"There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed." — Jackie Kennedy
"We have by far the most expensive health system in the world. We spend 50 percent more per person than the next most costly nation. Americans spend more on health care than housing or food." — Kathleen Sebelius
"There is nothing glamorous about death." — Roger Moore
"A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government." — Bob Woodward
"One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen." — Philip Wylie
"We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom." — Jesse Ventura
"No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction." — Charles Kendall Adams
"A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do." — Chuck Norris
"It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you." — Walter Gilbert
"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you." — Lewis B. Smedes
"I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage." — Mika Brzezinski
"Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book." — J. Michael Straczynski
"The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped." — William Hague
"Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed." — Robert H. Schuller
"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths." — Bertrand Russell
"I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface." — David Mamet
"Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship just wasn't happening at all, and our chemistry as people broke down because of that." — Matt Cameron
"Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art." — Ansel Adams
"When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits." — Allen Klein
"Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law." — David Byrne
"Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise." — Thomas Love Peacock
"My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success." — Barack Obama
"Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film." — Alfred Hitchcock
"People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses." — Dan Lipinski
"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." — Albert Schweitzer
"I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air." — Roone Arledge
"Everything makes me nervous - except making films." — Elizabeth Taylor
"I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers." — Wallis Simpson
"I love my mother Ali so much. I'm a momma's boy. I just have a very cool mom. It's not as though I had any say in the matter. I'm just really fortunate. She's the most kind, loving, giving woman." — Hayden Christensen
"People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown." — Vaslav Nijinsky
"I'm a military kid, both parents in the military - Mom did 12 years, Dad did 21, served in two wars. So discipline is something that was huge." — Robert Griffin III
"In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this." — Willie Mays
"Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing." — Haruki Murakami
"Whenever I'm in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father, but in the film world I can be really proud of my family and say, 'You know what: my dad's a really, really famous theatre director,' because nobody has any idea." — Rebecca Hall
"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection." — Dalai Lama
"Music inflames temperament." — Jim Morrison
"Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life." — Angelina Jolie
"The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day." — Eric Schmidt
"I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland." — Jim Ramstad
"I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people." — Kevin Costner
"I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston." — Thomas Menino
"Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good." — Mahatma Gandhi
"You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can." — P. J. O'Rourke
"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." — Robert H. Schuller
"Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned." — Peter Marshall
"I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender." — Abba Eban
"The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable." — Jim Goad
"I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that." — Madeleine Peyroux
"We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth." — Emilio Estevez
"There's always going to be dreams and goals I have, but I never really tell people what they are." — Tyra Banks
"I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff." — David Byrne
"Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science." — John Charles Polanyi
"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power." — Alan Cohen
"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much." — Oscar Wilde
"Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life." — George Bernard Shaw
"Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies." — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames." — Thomas Moore
"I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern." — Anais Nin
"Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history." — Anita Baker
"It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure." — Joseph Campbell
"The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world." — Joseph Butler
"My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more." — Alan Jackson
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." — Jorge Luis Borges
"Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord." — Paul Henderson
"Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass." — Aishwarya Rai
"If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all." — Jack Dee
"With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world." — Jerry Costello
"I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start." — Ina Garten
"In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words." — Bianca Jagger
"Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends." — Virginia Woolf
"There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones." — Daniel Dae Kim
"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor." — Thomas Jefferson
"Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it." — Erma Bombeck
"I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion." — J. J. Abrams
"I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists." — Jacques Yves Cousteau
"Usually a family is led through the mom or the dad and their career and for the family to be led by my career, even though God has led it, could be a lot of pressure." — Stacie Orrico
"It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely." — Albert Einstein
"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them." — Elliott Erwitt
"I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family." — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future." — Stendhal
"Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked." — Niccolo Machiavelli
"Know the true value of time snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today." — Lord Chesterfield
"He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience." — William Golding
"Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance." — Daniel Craig
"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards." — Mark Twain
"I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody I don't have to be a first to anybody." — Lena Horne
"Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions." — Roger Babson
"Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker." — Mary Douglas
"Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private." — Bill O'Reilly
"What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?" — Adam Smith
"I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters." — Julie Bowen
"'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right." — Dee Dee Myers
"I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it." — Jeremy Renner
"Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given." — Mother Teresa
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn
"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit." — e. e. cummings
"I am for gay marriage. Or same-sex marriage. I don't want to say it the wrong way. I think people are sensitive to it. I have been painted as being this right-wing zealot on choice. Nothing could be further from the truth." — Harold Ford
"I don't think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact, they lost interest pretty quick. I think I got lucky, briefly, in the '90s, and it just so happened that those movies were the opportunities that came my way. Then it just kind of stopped." — Janeane Garofalo
"Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time." — Erma Bombeck
"Obama won the presidency on the strength of his message and the skills of the messenger. Now the talk of hope and change feels out of tune when so many Americans are out of work, over-mortgaged, and worried that life will be even tougher for their children." — Ron Fournier
"In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power." — Elizabeth Wurtzel
"One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul." — Honore de Balzac
"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn." — Aldous Huxley
"I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, it's impossible to ignore." — Tom Perrotta
"There is no limit to the power of loving." — John Morton
"Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass." — John Steinbeck
"The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it." — James Thurber
"I hope and trust the infinite, the eternal, and merciful and loving God. I worship Him and feel no guilt in my heart before him for what I am going to do." — Alex Campbell
"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love." — Hubert H. Humphrey
"Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As the holiday has become more ecumenical and secular, it has lost much of the magic that I remember so fondly from childhood." — Whitley Strieber
"For some reason I can't explain, artist and musicians tend to look younger than our age. Being in music, you need this youthful sense of discovery and wonder for what you're doing and keep your imagination open. That's a youthful way of looking at life and I think that reflects in how you age." — Joshua Bell
"I'll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi's rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business." — Kate Moss
"God created the world the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there." — Pat Robertson
"There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning." — James Dean
"Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you." — John Muir
"That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry." — Brad Paisley
"I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way." — Mick Jagger
"The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge." — Tahar Ben Jelloun
"The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state." — William Scranton
"I'm so secluded. Very alone." — Yves Saint Laurent
"The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution." — Joseph Ratzinger
"Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people." — Robert Altman
"What we have most to fear is failure of the heart." — Sonia Johnson
"Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be." — Albert Einstein
"People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around." — Barbara Kingsolver
"My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it." — Dirk Benedict
"You can never trust what you read." — William Goldman
"The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young." — F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it." — Victor Hugo
"I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite funny. I think British acts might like to leave more to the imagination - maybe a bit more obscure perhaps - a bit more shy." — Ben Lovett
"Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain." — Christopher Morley
"I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried." — Hillary Clinton
"You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character." — David R. Ellis
"They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family." — Francis Ford Coppola
"Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters." — Jesse Jackson
"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well." — Robert Louis Stevenson
"Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged." — Gilbert K. Chesterton
"When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large." — Andrea Jung
"What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it." — Peter Singer
"I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line." — Lucille Ball
"Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing." — Bill Copeland
"For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal." — Johnny Depp
"I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom." — Carol Leifer
"My parents' marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren't good for each other." — Gail Porter
"In New York City, you can walk down the street and see a girl in a trench who looks equally as cool as a girl wearing Lululemon. It's like you're watching models. You see a little of everything right by you." — Hoda Kotb
"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse." — Edmund Burke
"To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile." — Simone Weil
"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude." — Oprah Winfrey
"As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?" — Alexis de Tocqueville
"I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that." — Edie Brickell
"With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot." — Ron Wyden
"I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns." — Charlie Sheen
"I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances." — Patricia Heaton
"Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago." — Erma Bombeck
"Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point." — Arthur Schopenhauer
"There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water." — Alan Clark
"Money equals freedom." — Kevin O'Leary
"I don't know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we've been talking, I think that's really fun." — Zac Efron
"The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them." — Abraham Lincoln
"People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication." — Yoko Ono
"It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger." — Gertrude Stein
"Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only." — Agnes Smedley
"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much." — William Hazlitt
"I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country." — Will Cuppy
"Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity." — Karl Marx
"Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper." — P. J. O'Rourke
"Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for." — Ray Bradbury
"I'll tell you, Quentin Tarantino really writes the most amazing dialogue." — Christopher Walken
"No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education." — Plato
"We couldn't get the car back until well after the end of the race and we had very little time for repairs." — John Surtees
"The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential." — Steve Ballmer
"On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there." — Michael Cunningham
"Our whole society is instantaneous." — Bryan Cranston
"I think my mother is my biggest influence. There are so many things I hate about her but at the same time I'm thankful for her. All I know is that when I'm a parent I want to be just like my mom. I can talk to my mom more than any of my friends could talk to their parents." — Nikki Reed
"I tell girls all the time that the men that have fallen in love with me, have all fallen during a man repeller stage... funny how life works out like that." — Rachel Roy
"There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest." — Confucius
"Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life." — Aristotle
"Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there." — Penn Jillette
"I think I'm pretty smart on what I spend my money on. I still don't have a new car, I drive my old car that I've had forever. But I bought a house in downtown Chicago." — Chris O'Donnell
"Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race." — Stanley Kunitz
"Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep." — Dave Barry
"Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!" — Taslima Nasrin
"A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart." — Lewis Thomas
"The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity." — Miguel de Cervantes
"All in all it was a smooth race, the car was very well balanced. I'm very proud to be the first winner here in India." — Sebastian Vettel
"If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny." — Steve Wozniak
"Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart." — Freya Stark
"Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there." — Robert Cormier
"Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail." — John Podhoretz
"Each State has its own health insurance mandates, and some of them are good, but there are about 1,800 of them all across the Nation, including provisions for acupuncturists, massage therapists, and hair replacements." — Timothy Murphy
"In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music." — Roy H. Williams
"The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money." — Karl Marx
"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love." — Marcus Aurelius
"I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough." — Christine Keeler
"It is not length of life, but depth of life." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff." — Stephen Harper
"I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around." — Olivia Munn
"We all would like to see a brighter future for Haiti, and I hope this conference will serve to explore many views. Respect for human rights, freedom, and the rule of law must be established in the poorest nation in our hemisphere." — Eliot Engel
"Some people train for certain sports and I want to train to be able to hold a super heavy electric guitar and carry luggage around myself because I always have to have 7,000 pairs of shoes. Who cares about sports?" — Lisa Loeb
"Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood." — William Allen White
"Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate." — Ambrose Bierce